Weeks 4-5 Rhetoric and the Art of Narrative

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"The essence of persuasion, communication, and self-understanding has become the ability also to fashion a compelling narrative." (Pink 66)

Narrative
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• Arms and the Man by Kathy Dobie

Required Reading:

• How to Do a Close Reading
• The Rhetorical Triangle
• The Canons of Rhetoric
• How to Do a Rhetorical Analysis
• Rhetorical Analysis
• Rhetorical Analysis Worksheet
• Tool Kit for Rhetorical Analysis

• E.B. White “Once More to the Lake
• V. Woolf’s “Death of a Moth.”
• a more contemporary essay by the same name by Annie Dillard.
• Alexander Petrunkevitvch’s “The Spider and the Wasp.”

• Father Guido Sarducci “5 minute University”
• Eric Sheninger Standardization Will Destroy Education
• Her Crime was Loving Schools Nick Kristof
• Do Schools Kill Creativity? 2006 TED.com talk by Sir Ken Robinson
• RSA Animate Changing Educational Paradigms (Sir Ken Robinson illustrated)
• Alfie Kohn "Degrading to De-Grading"
• Loyola Law School Grade Inflation Colbert Report
• Why We Still Need Standardized Testing Baeder
• Stop the War Against Standardized Tests Walberg
• Best in Class by Margaret Talbot
• Paulo Freire Bio
  • The Pedagogy of the Oppressed Summary
  • Freire's "Banking" Concept of Education Online Text

• George Orwell “A Hanging”
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hanging This link provides background information for the essay
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell Biographical information on Orwell. Read up on 1.2 Burma to understand the essay.
• George Orwell "Politics and the English Language"(classification and division)
• Orwell on Writing : Clarity is the Remedy NPR Commentary
• "If It's Orwellian, it's Probably Not" NY Times
• Doublespeak Awards Est.1974, given by NCTE Public Language Award Committee;ironic tribute to public speakers who perpetuate grossly deceptive, evasive, euphemistic, confusing, or self-centered language.
  
  

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  Honors an author, editor, or producer of a print or nonprint work that contributes to honesty and clarity in public language.

Supplemental reading/viewing:

• Annie Dillard
  • Annie Dillard
  • Annie Dillard — Life and Work
  • Dillard, Annie: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
  • The Myticism of Dillard's //Pilgrim at Tinker Creek//
  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek — An Introduction

• Bulwer-Lytton "Dark and Stormy Night" Fiction Contest
• The Sad, Sad State of College English

• Ferris Bueller"Voodoo Economics. . .Anyone?" Clip
• Dead Poets Society Perspective Clip
• Dead Poets Society What Will Your Verse Be? Clip
• Taylor Mali "I'll Fight You for the Library"
• Waiting for Superman (charter school doc) NPR interview
• Math Class Needs a Makeover TED talk
• Bring on the Learning Ken Robinson 2010 TED talk
• George Orwell "Shooting an Elephant"